Category: Translation - Page 2

"I've been asked repeatedly if the translations I've worked on are translations of the King James, for example, assuming a translation from English to English," said Green, who also is New Testament editor of the Common English Bible, released in 2011. "So when I explain that it is a translation from Hebrew or Aramaic, in a few cases, and Greek, people are surprised and they wonder if Bible scholars actually know those languages."

Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice, and then use it to speak a language that you don't. The system could be used to make language tutoring software more personal, or to make tools for travelers.

Not quite in time for St Patrick’s Day, but shortly thereafter, fans will at last be able to read an Irish language version of The Hobbit. The book has been translated into Gaelic by Nicholas Williams, and will be published by Evertype on March 25th.

"Ladino is a spoken language. Suddenly I had to find words from realms that don't have words, like agriculture, seafaring, names of trees, etc." He found the words in Peretz's Hebrew-Ladino dictionary and in the Bible in Ladino, among other books. "I didn't make up any words. I have documentation for everything," he says.

Twitter now comes in 28 languages. The newest ones -- Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic and Urdu -- were added just this week. Those four languages posed a particular problem to Twitter's team of translation volunteers because they are read from right to left, rather than left to right. Therefore the translation required not just word challenges, but technical and design challenges too.

Having studied the intricacies of the Maori language for more than 20 years, Morrison is using his knowledge to help present the Shakespearean tragedy entirely in te reo. "There is real value in doing a show like this because it's helping to rejuvenate the Maori language. Being able to bring the language alive and present it to people in different ways is something I'm really passionate about."

Chief Judge Belvin Perry, in an effort to relieve financial stress on the court and improve services, spearheaded the installation of a high-tech interpreter system — the first in the state — that simultaneously connects interpreters across 67 courtrooms through a network of flat-screens, high definition cameras and fiber-optic lines.

Those of us for whom Star Trek serves as a benchmark for technological progress can only bemoan the fact that hopes for faster-than-light travel to other galaxies seem to be receding at warp speed, given that we no longer even have faster-than-sound travel to France. But I would prefer to focus on the bright side: We’re rapidly closing in on the Universal Translator, which means that when I do finally arrive in France, I’ll be able to communicate as easily as if I were on Earth.

The company, Applied Language Solutions, said it had boosted its resources in the past two weeks and “implemented significant improvements” to deal with problems. But police chiefs have admitted that, in a small number of cases, foreign suspects arrested for low-level crimes such as shoplifting have had to be freed on bail before questioning.

Microsoft has added Hmong to the list of languages supported by Bing Translator. This was achieved using new features of Microsoft Translator to train a new translation engine using parallel documents.

Google Translate has announced its 64th supported language – the artificial Esperanto. Google said in a blog post that the language "has hundreds of thousands of active speakers, millions of people with some knowledge of the language, and even a few hundred people who learned it from birth, taught by their parents."

...So Dr Jemni's team built a system which uses natural-language processing to translate text messages into sign-language animations delivered in the form of a multimedia message (MMS). MMSs work on most phones and the actual data-crunching is performed not on the device but on the EUMEDGrid, a distributed-computing facility.

AN AUSTRIAN-born professor claims to have comprehensively translated one of the first written passages of old Irish, which has defied previous translations. The passage is the third of three charms, or spells, in the ninth century Stowe Missal, a Mass book written mostly in Latin, which has a single page at the back containing the charms written in old Irish.

Too often, politicians and other public figures wrongly cry: "I was misquoted" or "quoted out of context" when their utterances spark public outrage. The experience of the past few years, however, has taught me not to dismiss these as obfuscations without first getting an independent account of what the person actually said - especially if such a person had spoken in a language other than English.

Jerriais writer Geraint Jennings began translating the book into Jersey's native language in 1999, working on the occasional scene. He began the full translation a few years ago when he was approached by specialist minority language publisher Everytype.

Ross handles historic documents perhaps hundreds of years old while embracing the latest technology that helps him do his job. The translators use Apple iPhones and iPads and computers with the Cherokee syllabary. He said the staff uses iPads to send emails in the syllabary to other Cherokee language users.

The “Star Wars” movies gave us an iconic robot that could translate conversations instantly in a seemingly infinite number of languages. It made for good science fiction. But Raytheon BBN Technologies in Cambridge is developing technology that would put the ornery C3PO to shame.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, IDRT's AcceleGlove product teaches and translates American Sign Language by interconnecting computer software and a camera with accelerometer-tracked input from the wearer's finger movements.

As the Frankfurt Book Fair’s guest of honor last October, Iceland enjoyed unqualified success. No other country has a larger proportion of writers and readers and Iceland’s enthusiasm for literature was an inspiration to many, professionals and amateurs alike.

BEIJING - China on Friday announced five software applications designed to further promote and standardize the use of minority languages. These programs include electronic dictionaries for the characters of the Yi and Zhuang ethnic groups, a proofreading tool for the Zhuang ethnic language, and transcoding applications for the languages of the Tibetan, Uygur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz ethnicities, according to a statement released Friday by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.

For the third time already, the Estonian minister of foreign affairs Urmas Paet and his Latvian colleague Edgars Rinkevics will announce a contest for the Estonian-Latvian and Latvian-Estonian translation prize, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia.

ABU DHABI // A draft law would compel translators to obtain a licence from the Ministry of Justice and pass a certification test. However, courtroom translators would be exempt. The FNC's legal and legislative affairs committee this week amended the bill to ensure all translation and interpretation is performed by skilled, qualified individuals, officials said.

The Bible is, for the first time, being translated into Jamaican patois. It's a move welcomed by those Jamaicans who want their mother tongue enshrined as the national language - but opposed by others, who think learning and speaking English should be the priority.

Lexifone’s technology allows people to have regular conversations, in different languages. When one party speaks, what they say is automatically translated into the other person’s language and vice versa.

Successfully translating a Japanese novel or essay collection into English can take years – even decades – and is both a science and an art, according to University of Virginia professor Michiko Wilson, who is about to complete two such projects.

GUWAHATI, Dec 13 – A massive inter-language translation exercise has brought to light an enviably rich treasure trove of children’s literature of the NE region that has remained obscured so far. The venture has been undertaken jointly by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and city-based voluntary organisation Anwesha.

Mr O'Dowd said the department began employing Irish language officers in 2008 and has an obligation under the Good Friday and St Andrews agreements to promote and protect the Irish language. He also cited duties under the European charger for Regional and Minority languages. There are 81 Irish language medium schools in Northern Ireland, teaching 4,000 pupils from nursery to secondary level.

Sacramento -- In a small apartment in Sacramento California, there lives a Seventy-two year old Assyrian Deacon named Elisha Simon who spends many of his hours typing away on his computer; translating hand-written Aramaic texts into Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.